TENNIS AT DAY'S BAY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 58, 1 December 1917, Page 9

TENNIS AT DAY'S BAY

SUNDAY PLAY APPROVED. . • In ■ committee on Thursday night the, City Council considered the following report of tho Reserves Committee.regards ing Sunday tenais at Day's Bay— "The committee has to report that a deputation .representing the Wellington Lawn Tennis Association attended the meeting before last to urge the. council, to allow the Day's Bay courts to he usctl for Sunday play. The deputation pointed out that the request was made in thfe I interests of soldiers on week-end tw-ve, from whom the association has received many requests for permission to play. The committee has to recommend that, subject to satisfactory regulations being made to control the playing of tenni6 on Sunday at the Day's Bay courts, the council grant tho application of the association." After a lengthy sitting it was reported that the recommendation had been agreed to by eight votes to six. the division lisi. beinir—Aves: Councillors Barber, Fitzgerald, Frost, Luckie. M'Kenzie, Norwood, Shorland. and Vcitch. Noes: the. Mayor, Councillors Atkinson, Bennett, Castle, Hildreth, and Wright. Councillor Castle gave notice i f motion yesterday as follows:—"Knowing that ai least two members of the council wero absent when the resolution authorising the playing of tennis on the Day's Bay reserve on Sundays was passed, I give notice that at tho next meeting rf tli6 council I will move that the -esolution be rescinded." The absentees were Councillors J. Rod-, ber and W. J. Thompson.